April 2010

The Evergreen wolverines boys baseball suffered a tough loss to the Kennedy Lancers Friday night, losing 13-1. The game was called after the fifth inning, invoking the mercy rule of 10 runs.
This game marked the first time Evergreen High School hosted a baseball game at Steve Cox Memorial Field in Whitecenter. The game was part of Evergreen Senior Mason Graham's senior project.

TO SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THE GAME CLICK THE IMAGE ABOVE.

Due to proposed budget cuts that could close Evergreen's athletic fields Graham took it on as his senior project to move the baseball games to Steve Cox Memorial Field.

Sheriff's Deputy Steve Cox was killed while responding to a call in 2006. Cox was a former Evergreen student, playing basketball during high school.

The new West Seattle Produce Company at 4721 Fauntleroy Way S.W. opens today officially and will offer some sample products and
provide visitors a chance to see what they've done with the former Huling Brothers used car lot.

Workers have been busy converting the former sales office on the site to retail space and setting up a nursery area. If you get a chance stop by and take a look at this newest West Seattle business. To learn some background here's the story behind the business the Herald brought you first. West Seattle Produce to open May 1

The grand opening is planned for June 5-6.

A consensus seemed to be reached by parents of West Seattle teens, and drug and alcohol experts, that to “Just Say No” does not accomplish tangible results to keep kids from the temptation of abusing nor promote meaningful communication between parent and child.

Hope Lutheran Church partnered with Renae Gaines and the Southwest Healthy Youth Partnership to sponsor a town hall meeting to address the subject of underage drinking and drug and tobacco use on April 28 at Seattle Lutheran High School.

The evening program was called “A Time for the Community to Conversate: A Community Forum.” The purpose was to bring the community together to provide tools to address underage drinking and youth marijuana use in the West Seattle community. A panel expressed the importance of adults and the community to send a consistent message to young people that alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other drug use is unhealthy, illegal, and can negatively impact their future.

Elois Gruenhagen is retiring after 45 years at Hope Lutheran Church and School. She's served as a first grade teacher for over 4 decades.
On May 16th there will be a celebration of thanks to the Lord. Students, parents, teachers, as well as friends, family, and neighbors are invited to attend.
A light lunch will be serve at 12 Noon followed by a program in the Fellowship Hall at 4456 42nd S.W. Seattle.
Those planning on attending are asked to R.S.V.P. to Shari Wallace in the Hope School office at 206.935.8500

The water coursing through Adams Elementary School's new rain garden may have been hose-supplied, but that didn't damped enthusiasm during the debut of the new runoff control system April 30.

The rain garden for the school at 6110 28th Ave. N.W. will help mitigate storm water and combines education and environmentalism, said David Minnery, who developed the conceptual design for the rain garden as a graduate student in landscape architecture.

The Adams rain garden takes rainwater from the school's two roofs and directs it into a cistern. From the cistern, the water travels down a concrete channel before being released into a garden that will absorb the water and remove pollutants.

As rain was conspicuously absent, water was fed into the cistern through a hose for the official debut of the rain garden. As the water coursed down the channel, Adams students crowded together to splash in the water and watch as it cascaded into the garden.

Minnery said it felt nice to see the students react when the water was turned on, as he always intended the rain garden to be interactive and a space for play.

A Police Memorial Cermony will be held at Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Cemetery, starting at 12:00 Noon, May 4th.
The Ceremony is designed to honor police officers who have served our community and have fallen in the line of duty.
Reception to follow the Memorial service with hors d'oeuvres and refreshments.

The Memorial Ceremony takes place during National Police Week.

The state Department of Ecology, U.S. Coast Guard and South King Fire & Rescue are responding to a diesel fuel spill leaking into a small creek at Dash Point State Park that empties to south Puget Sound.

The site is just south of Des Moines in Federal Way.

The 300-gallon, privately-owned tank is used to fill construction and other work equipment. A worker with Long Painting noticed nothing unusual when he went into a trailer at the equipment site about 7:45 p.m. Thursday. When he left the trailer about 8:35 p.m., diesel fuel was flowing across a parking lot, into a grassy area, soaking into the ground and going into a creek about 700 feet from where it enters Puget Sound.

The spill was reported to the state Department of Ecology about 10 p.m. The cause and volume of the spill are under investigation, but initial reports indicate an equipment failure on the tank. It had been filled recently, and the spill emptied the tank.

The Ballard High School girls team lost 7-0 to Mercer Island April 29.

Coach Charles Brenner said the Beavers handled the match well and learned a lot against arguably the best tennis school in the area.

Ballard's next match is against Juanita at 3:45 p.m. on May 4 at the Lower Woodland tennis courts.

Complete results from the April 29 match:

In # 1 Singles Nora Tan from Mercer Island High School beat Stephanie Loo from Ballard High School 6-0, 6-0.

In #2 Singles Julia Zook from Mercer Island High School beat Stephanie Susanna Bowers from Ballard High School 6-0, 6-0.

In #3 Singles Karissa Walker from Mercer Island High School beat Maya Voelk from Ballard High School 6-0, 6-1.

In #4 Singles Carissa Ham from Mercer Island High School beat Heather Fryle from Mercer Island High School 6-3, 6-2.

In #1 Doubles Jimena Diaz and Zoe Kasperzyk from Ballard High School lost to Mercer Island 6-0,6-1.

In #2 Doubles Erica Baska and Sophia Gage from Mercer Island High School beat Cami Herk and Nicole Frederick from Ballard High School 6-0, 6-0.

Ballard High School's Maritime Academy students spent the morning of April 30 sending underwater vehicles to the bottom of the Ballard Pool to see which team could collect the most rings. And, as is usually the case in life, Chuck Norris came out on top.

Juniors David Mershon and Andrew Colbrook sent their Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV), named Chuck Norris after the hard-hitting, impeccably bearded star of "Walker, Texas Ranger" and "The Octagon," into the pool first and ran away with the competition despite their unconventional T-shaped design.

Colbrook said they wanted the simplest design possible because sometimes simple is a good thing.

All the other teams were building box or house-shaped ROVs, Mershon said.

John Foster, teacher at Ballard's Maritime Academy, has been having his students build and compete ROVs for the past five or six years to teach them about wiring, electricity and buoyancy.

In addition, students learn to design, test and redesign to achieve a particular goal, picking up rings, in this case, Foster said.

Seven Beavers scored against winless Graham-Kapowsin April 29, as the Ballard High School lacrosse team put up 17 points and earned its biggest margin of victory of the season.

Ballard had an impressive 33 shots on goal to Graham-Kapowsin's 17 in the 17-10 win.

Junior Maddie Soukup led all scorers with five goals, and juniors Jayne Barnes and Haley Jackson finished three apiece. Kelsey Barta, Cecilia Raible, Jessica Bryan and India Posner added goals as well.

Junior goalie Hannah Breton tallied 10 saves.

The win gives the Beavers a 4-4 record and moves them into a tie for 10th place. The top nine teams make the playoffs.

The three matches remaining in the season are all winnable for the second-year Ballard team. Auburn Mountainview is in 14th place, Lake Sammamish is in 15th and Holy Names is in 16th.

The Beavers face Lake Sammimish first at 5:30 p.m. on April 30 at Ballard High School.